Sunday, August 31, 2008

The long series of updates in our maps mashups (see Big Map, Mobile maps) - there is a new version for QR map too. See it here. We hope that the navigation is now much more flexible.

With QR Map you center the map so that the pointer is on your location (or use a search icon), set the scale and then click on the mail icon at the top of the map. You will see Tiny URL with QR code. E.g. (http://tinyurl.com/6fkdf9):

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

One time readable text notes. Just write your note and get a tiny url link. Then share this link via email or twitter. When your recipient clicks the link for the first time, he/she will see your note. In the same time note data will be destructed so your note is not readable anymore. You can use secure messages in the public twitter line for example. See service here

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

If you are using Internet Explorer, just right click on the link, and select Add to Favorites and save it to the Links folder. If you are using Firefox, right click the link and select Bookmark This Link and save it to the Bookmark Toolbar Folder.

Many public API's from Web 2.0 projects introduce rate limits for the usage. E.g. Twitter API allows 70 requests per hour, Google geocode API does the similar things etc. Let us see the following component in Coldtags suite: Timer taglib. Body tag timer may execute own body once per given time interval (or not often than - depends on the incoming requests) for all the requests (application scope) or on per user base (session scope). Beyond the cache, we can use this tag for dealing with the rate limitation in public API. E.g. ask Twitter not often than once per 60 seconds:

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Our mobile maps maker has been updated. Select the area on the full screen map (lookup the address) and create a static (that is the key point!) picture for the selected map area. This static picture (just a .gif file) could be viewed on any mobile phone. So you can share maps with your friends by this way, for example. See Mobile maps mashup for details.